Sunday, August 13, 2006

Setting up RSS feed for your blogger blog comments

This is a useful post for setting up RSS/Atom feeds for the comments posted on your blogger blog. BTW, you can subscribe to my blog's feeds here. Here goes the step-by-step procedure to set it up:
  1. Open your main blog's Settings
    1. Go to Comments
    2. Set Comment Notification Address to something like: <YourGmailId>+<SomeStringABC>@gmail.com

  2. Go to Dashboard and setup a new blog. You can call it whatever like. This blog will hold your comments! Wondering how? Keep reading.

  3. Open your comment blog's Settings
    1. Go to Email
    2. Set Mail-to-Blogger Address to something like: <YourBloggerId>.<SomeStringXYZ>@blogger.com

  4. Login to your Gmail account,
    1. Go to Filters
    2. Set up a new filter with the following values:
      • Mail sent to: <YourGmailId>+<SomeStringABC>@gmail.com
      • Forward to: <YourBloggerId>.<SomeStringXYZ>@blogger.com
      • Select: Delete it.

  5. You're done mate! Your comments will now be available on your new blog. You can publicize the feed to it on your main blog for the convenience of yourself and your readers.

PS: I utilize this post to congratulate on of my close friends for getting "The Nod"! Your responsibilities have increased now ;)
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